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Department of Spanish and Portuguese


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Department Chair: Carlos J. Alonso, Ph.D.
305 Casa Hispánica
Tel: 212.854.5177


Director of Graduate Studies: Graciela R. Montaldo, Ph.D.
302 Casa Hispánica
Tel: 212.854.4882


Faculty

Carlos J. Alonso:
Morris A. and Alma Schapiro Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Yale, 1983
Interests: Modern Latin American literature and culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Elizabeth Amann:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 2000
Interests: Modern Spanish literature and film, comparative literature; influence and imitation; the adultery novel; genre theory and ideology of form
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Anke Birkenmaier:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 2004
Interests: Latin American literature with a special focus on Cuban literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Maite Conde:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., California (Los Angeles), 2004
Interests: Brazilian literature, Brazilian cinema, modernism and modernity in Brazil and Spanish America, Latin American cultural theory
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Patricia Grieve:
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Princeton, 1983
Interests: Medieval Spanish literature; Golden Age prose and poetry; Cervantes; comparative literature (medieval and early modern Europe)
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alfred MacAdam:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Princeton, 1969
Interests: Latin American literature; literary translation
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alberto Medina:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., New York University, 2000
Interests: 18th through 20th-century Spanish culture; transatlantic culture of the Hispanic world
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Graciela R. Montaldo:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Buenos Aires, 1990
Interests: Contemporary Latin American literature, Argentina
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gustavo Pérez-Firmat:
David Feinson Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Michigan, 1979
Interests: Caribbean literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wadda C. Ríos-Font:
Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Harvard, 1991
Interests: Peninsular literature and culture from 1800 to the present
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Alessandra Russo:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2006
Interests: Colonial Latin American studies; history of art, material culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dale Shuger:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., New York University, 2008
Interests: Early modern Spanish culture; Cervantes
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gonzalo Sobejano:
Fred and Fanny Mack Professor in the Humanities, Ph.D., Madrid, 1955
Interests: Spanish literature, from 17th-century Spanish narrative and poetry to contemporary literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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